The P4 Parallel Programming System, the Linda Environment, and Some Experiences with Parallel Computation

Object-oriented Parallel Programming with Objective Linda Object-oriented Parallel Programming with Objective Linda

In this paper we present Objective Linda, a coordination model in which object-orientation is combined with uncoupled, generative communication in order to enable object-oriented parallel programming in networked computing resources. Objective Linda provides suitable abstractions for structuring large software systems, supports interoper-ability between diierent programming languages and parall...

Monitors, Messages, and Clusters: The p4 Parallel Programming System

p4 is a portable library of C and Fortran subroutines for programming parallel computers. It is the current version of a system that has been in use since 1984. It includes features for explicit parallel programming of shared-memory machines, distributed-memory machines (including heterogeneous networks of workstations), and clusters, by which we mean shared-memory multiprocessors communicating...

ISETL-LINDA: Parallel Programming with Bags

This paper describes the parallel language ISETL-LINDA. The language is an extension of ISETL, an imperative language whose main data structure is the set. We extend ISETL by adding a new type of distributed bags, and operations to act on bags which correspond to the LINDA primitives. However, we use a variant of LINDA created at the University of York which replaces the problematic inp and rdp...

Programming Environments for Parallel Computing: A Comparison of CPS, Linda, P4, PVM, POSYBL, and TCGMS

In this paper, six portable parallel programming environments are compared. For each environment, communication bandwidths are reported for simple 2 node and 4 node benchmarks. Reproducibility was a top priority , so these tests were run on an isolated ethernet network of identical SPARCstation 1 workstations. Earlier reports of this work omitted opinions reached during the benchmarking about t...

Extending the Parallel Logic Programming Paradigm with Linda-like Operations